Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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Above, top photo, Jason Meyer, 14, of Rosamond, salutes during a ceremony May 12, 2016, at Love's Travel Stop for the Fallen Soldier Cart that is being transported from Seattle to Washington, D.C. accompanied by patriotic fanfare and motorcycle escorts of veterans. The carrier, seen in the lower photo on the left, will be used for the transport of deceased service members. "We don't want them treated as cargo," escort James Rea said. During transport, a cart carrying a deceased veteran will be...
Days are getting longer, nights are getting warmer, roses are blooming, and the Thunder on the Mountain Car Show Committee is getting ready for the big fundraiser car show that will take place during the Mountain Festival weekend in August. All proceeds go to scholarships, charities and local community groups and, thanks to the outstanding support from the people of Tehachapi, the amount donated last year was $22,000. For the last ten years, Thunder on the Mountain has included the Optimal Hospice Foundation as one of its charities. Hospice...
Supervisor Zack Scrivner attends National Security Forum Maxwell Air Force Base, AL – Supervisor Zack Scrivner received a personal invitation from the Secretary of the Air Force and attended the 63rd annual National Security Forum (NSF) at the Air War College, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. The purpose of the NSF was to expose influential citizens to senior U.S. and international officers and civilian equivalents in order to engage each other’s ideas and perspectives on Air Force, nat...
Tehachapi Valley Arts Association and its supporters are at it again. For the second time this year they have collected art supply wish lists from local area teachers and set about making those wishes come true. In September over $2200 in supplies were donated and just this week another $2400 in supplies were delivered throughout Tehachapi. Tehachapi High School, Jacobsen Middle School, Cummings Valley Elementary School, Golden Hills Elementary, Tompkins Elementary and Hope Academy were all...
Nurses at Tehachapi Hospital were honored with The DAISY Award For Extraordinary Nurses during a special ceremony kicking off Nurses’ Week on May 6. The award is part of the DAISY Foundation’s program to recognize the super-human efforts nurses perform every day. The first award recipient was Patricia Tye. Patricia is a compassionate LVN currently working towards her RN license. She has been an employee of Tehachapi Hospital for 5 years, working with the Swing Bed patients. Patricia genuinely cares for her patients. She is kind and tru...
At this point in this "forever" presidential campaign, Fiddlers Crossing decided a little levity would be in order, in the form of political satirist Roy Zimmerman. Saturday, June 4, will mark his second appearance at Fiddlers Crossing. He played to a sold-out crowd in 2014. While Zimmerman may not change any minds a few days before our primary, he should at least give us an evening of hilarity. He is, after all, "an equal opportunity offender." He finds just about everything and everyone funny...
My sister and I visited Ireland this past week. While we thought that the country was beautiful and the people were both gracious and friendly, we were both surprised by two things. First, there was a discussion on the BBC that many of the British surgeons wanted to make it mandatory that obese English citizens obtain a gastric banding to combat the problem. Not surprisingly, there also were many physicians who thought mandatory surgery went a bit too far too fast. I have to agree with the second opinion: surgery should be the last resort, not...
Tehachapi Valley Wrestling Club has been busy competing in the Kern County Wrestling Association tournament schedule. Two outstanding wrestlers have gone undefeated in the KCWA meets so far this year, Jacob Cardenas, Rookie 55lb and Bill Takara 100lb Novice. April 16, TVWC competed at Arvin Grizzlies Tournament with Jacob Cardenas and Jairden Medina placing first in their Divisions. Levi Hart, Elijah Graves and Stephan Meek took 2nd place and Cayden Castrellon placed 5th. The same weekend was the California Greco State and Cadet Freestyle Tourn...
Once again I will include a little episode from my husband’s Marine Corps thirty year career; a little glimpse of life in the “old Corps,” by CWO-4 Doyle D. Gracey, Jr. USMC: I was a member of the Marine Corps Base Rifle Team at Camp Pendleton on our way to compete at the First Hawaii Invitational Rifle Matches at Palau Point, probably sometime in the early 1960s. Our means to get there was a C-130 out of El Toro, California. There were eight of us and we boarded the big multiengine air craft pr...
Last column’s topic was Mojave Airport as of 1986. We noted how the Space Port, as it is now called, has grown considerably since then. I promised I would write about “another view” of Mojave, as written by a reporter from the New Yorker Magazine after he had visited the airport to cover test flights of the Voyager as it prepared for its around the world flight and record attempt. The August 4, 1986 magazine article featured the opinions of Burton Burnstien. He first interviewed Dick Rutan...
Income Taxes – As long as you are the trustee or a co-trustee, no separate income tax returns are required to be filed for your living trust. The taxpayer identification number for the trust is your social security number and all income and deductions related to the assets held in the trust are reportable on your individual income tax returns. When you are no longer a trustee of your trust, then income tax returns must be filed by the trustee, reporting all of the income and deductions relating...
During a facilities update at the April 26 school board meeting, President Mary Graham had asked Business Administrator Nick Heinlein for a visual of what a sixth grade wing would look like at Jacobsen Middle School. At the May 24 meeting, Heinlein presented drawings that clearly explained the vision for the new wing. Heinlein said that he needed a board consensus in order to move forward with the planning for the wing. Options presented were whether to include eight or ten classrooms and...
The Kern County Fire Department will increase the level of fire restrictions beginning on May 28, 2016. Five years of drought coupled with widespread tree mortality throughout Kern County have firefighters at the ready. Upcoming summer temperatures and low fuel moisture have prompted fire officials to increase fire restrictions. Kern County Fire Department officials will keep these restrictions in effect until further notice. Beginning May 28, 2016, campfires will not be allowed in any county pa...
Members of the Tehachapi’s Southern Sierra Amateur Radio Society will be participating in the national Amateur Radio Field Day exercise, June 25 to 26 at Tehachapi’s Brite Lake, Pavilion 3 (courtesy of the Tehachapi Recreation and Parks Department). Setup will be complete and operations will begin at 11 a.m. on Saturday, June 25. Field Day is open to the public and all are encouraged to attend. Amateur Radio — sometimes called ham radio — has allowed people from all walks of life to experiment with electronics and communications techniques, as...
In honor of National Wine Day, Bakersfield news channels 29 & 58 came to Tehachapi in the early morning (5 a.m.) on May 24 for a live newscast from Triassic Vineyard. Interviewer Kalina Astrinos joined Triassic Vineyard owners Sally and Jim Arnold , Bob and Patty Souza from Souza Family Vineyard, Mike and Michele Dorner from Dorner Family Vineyard, Cliff and Lisa Meredith from Stray Leaves Vineyard and Sonja Martini from Martini Vineyard. Along with indulging in a bit of early-morning wine...
Guy and Jennifer Williams had a party to thank the community for "Saving Tehachapi's Jewel", Jennifer's Terrace (see page 16 for their ad) Everyone enjoyed appetizers by Mill Street Kitchen, live entertainment by Justin Hedberg, the beautiful weather and great door prizes....
The conference was held on May 12 to coincide with National Small Business week May 1-7. The conference is planned to be every other year from now on. Several of the guests mentioned that it was one of the best run conferences they had attended....
Golden Hills Elementary teacher Debbie Lee is probably the most excited 5th grade teacher in Tehachapi. Mrs. Lee, who will be retiring at the end of the school year, said that she "will be going out with a bang." Mrs. Lee's class, the X Team, took home the trophy from the Intermediate Space Challenge held at Tehachapi Airport on May 18. This is the second year in a row that her class has won the top prize. Thirty teams of Tehachapi 4th and 5th graders from Cummings Valley, Golden Hills,...
Some animals are just special. That perfectly describes Valentine. Who knew you could love a bison? But from the moment I saw Valentine, it has been that way. It was early February when I got the call. A ranch in Cuayama had sold its herd of 300 bison for slaughter. One of the cows had dropped a calf the week before and the owner was looking for someone to take it. Thankfully he didn't feel right letting the baby go off to slaughter. And so on Valentine's day, 9 years ago, I headed to Cuayama,...
Cool mountain-top weather, a welcoming water tower and those familiar white art-filled canopies under the shade trees at Railroad Park make for a fun filled weekend in Tehachapi! Join Tehachapi Valley Arts Association as they sponsor the 37th Annual Springtyme Faire on June 11 - 12, 2016 at Railroad Park on Tehachapi Blvd. The fair is a great way to get out of the heat and celebrate art for a good cause. The fair features over 40 unique handcraft vendors and proceeds from the event help fund...
Tehachapi philanthropist, Cash the Wonder Dog, paid a visit to The Loop Newspaper office to thank them for supporting his efforts....
June 10, 2016 HELEN F. CHAVEZ MEMORIAL SERVICES (ROAD CLOSURES & PARKING) The Mass of Christian Burial for Helen F. Chavez will be held Monday June 13, 2016 at St. Malachy Catholic Church located at 407 West E Street, Tehachapi. Services will begin at 9 a.m. Due to the large number of mourners expected to be in attendance, parking at the church will be restricted to family and VIP's only. General public parking will be in the Capital Hills area north of Highway 58. For general public parking,...
